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This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Carrot Top on his friendship with ‘generous’ Queen legends Brian May and Roger Taylor (Image: GETTY/EXPRESS)The American prop comic, famous for his wacky inventions, has been performing in Las Vegas for almost 20 years; most of which has been his residency at the pyramid-shaped Luxor Hotel and Casino.As Carrot Top (real name Scott Thompson) approaches the two decade milestone, Express.co.uk sat down with the 59-year-old in his eclectic dressing room, full of colour and trinkets, to talk about his residency, the impact of cancel culture on comedy, his bizarre interaction with Donald Trump and his friendship with Queen rock stars Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor.Asked how he k...

In August, as an estimated 14 million people scrabbled for tickets to next year’s Oasis reunion, the mid-90s Britpop movement was back making headlines once again.Britpop was a cultural scene legendary for launching offbeat alternative bands into the mainstream, from Pulp and Suede to The Verve, culminating in Blur and Oasis’s battle for the number one chart position in 1995 with their respective singles Country House and Roll With It.So a new book from respected music journalist Miranda Sawyer couldn’t be more timely.In Uncommon People: Britpop And Beyond In 20 Songs, she turns a spotlight on the bands and musicians who dominated the 90s charts, including Radiohead, Manic Street Preachers and The Prodigy, to explore the ground they broke and the legacy they left.But what was it like fo...

The Busted vs McFly tour is already gearing up to be one of the most exciting events of 2025.The head-to-head tour will see international boybands Busted and McFly playing shows around the UK in a bid to find out who are the better group.Speaking about the groundbreaking tour in an interview with Kerrang!, Busted frontman Charlie Simpson said: "It won’t run like a co-headline show. It will run in a way that you won’t have seen before. I just saw the renders of the staging, and that alone looks incredible, and something that I haven’t seen before. There’s going to be a lot of cool s*** – there’s some WWF vibes as well!"Tickets for this tour came out last week, but they were quickly snapped up. And even though new dates were confirmed, they were simply not enough to quell fans' urges.As a...

Sam Fender fans will no doubt already be rejoicing over his recent tour announcement.The singer-songwriter, who hails from North Shields, is finally making his way back to British stages in a full headline tour - and it's kicking off in just a couple of months.This UK, Ireland and European tour will see the Hypersonic Missiles star hit stages for the first time since 2022.The People Watching tour will begin on December 2, 2024, and will run through the end of the year and well into 2025, with dates in Leeds, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and more.Tickets for Sam Fender's tour come out at the end of this week, but there are a few presale events kicking off before then. And we've got all you need to know. Here's the information:Sam Fender's first presale will begin on Wednesday,...

He may be turning 85 next year and recently had to cancel the rest of his US tour due to ill health, but Sir Ringo Starr shows no sign of slowing down on a creative level.The Beatles drummer has been putting out a few EPs in recent times but today has announced his first full-length album in six years.Sporting a cowboy hat, the Liverpudlian is going full Country with Look Up, which is produced and co-written by T Bone Burnett.Set for release on January 10, 2025, Sir Ringo sings and plays drums on all 11 tracks, while he also co-wrote the album’s closing song Thankful, featuring Alison Krauss.The first single, Time On My Hands, is out now and can be listened to below.The Beatles drummer said: “I’ve always loved country music. And when I asked T Bone to write me a song, I didn’t even thin...

It’s been over 50 years since Queen recorded their self-titled debut album and became the world’s biggest band after The Beatles.Now, as a newly remixed, remastered and expanded version of the aptly retitled Queen I is set to release on October 25, Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor have taken part in new interviews looking back at their early days together with Freddie Mercury and John Deacon.In an official new YouTube video titled Queen The Greatest Special — The Story of Queen I (Part One), which you can view below, the multimillionaire rock stars recall being on the verge of poverty.The drummer said: “It was tough in the beginning. We were very poor. It really was hand-to-mouth. What do you call a musician without a girlfriend? Homeless.”Meanwhile, the guitarist shared how his father wa...

Before she died at 54 last year, Lisa Marie Presley was working on her memoir with her eldest daughter Riley Keough.Elvis Prelsey’s daughter may have had fame and fortune, but her life was plagued by tragedy.From the death of her father at just nine years old, through her four divorces (including Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage) to her son’s death at just 27, Lisa Marie suffered a lot.On top of it all, in her posthumous memoir From Here to the Great Unknown, she alleged that her mother Priscilla Presley’s ex-boyfriend, molested her when she was a teenager.The 80-year-old actor Michael Edwards, who played adult John Connor in Terminator 2, told The Independent that he strongly denies the allegations, which he called “fabrications”, and said: “These claims are absolutely untrue. I never ...

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Brian May unboxes Queen 1 box setIt’s over 50 years in the making, and for the first time ever, one of Queen’s records has received a new stereo mix featuring a new tracklisting, alternative takes, demos, and live recordings.Retitled Queen I, the band’s iconic self-titled 1973 debut album, has been remixed, remastered and expanded as a 6 CD + 1 LP box set collector’s edition that includes 63 tracks with 43 brand new mixes.Sir Brian May has teased: “This is not just a remaster. This is a brand new 2024 rebuild of the entire Queen debut album, which, with the benefit of hindsight, we have re-titled QUEEN I.“All the performances are exactly as they originally appeared in 1973...

Iconic musician Nick Cave has sparked debate on concert etiquette after scolding his phone-obsessed audience during a recent performance.The 67-year-old Australian rocker, currently touring with The Bad Seeds to promote their new album 'Wild God', showed clear signs of exasperation with fans constantly filming on their phones.In a viral clip from his Kraków, Poland gig, Cave bluntly told the crowd to "put your f**king phones away".His stance on the matter led to an outpouring of support in the comments section, with many agreeing with the singer's sentiment.During the show, Cave indulged the audience with a brief opportunity to capture him on their devices, saying: "Listen. It's fine, you can film a little bit, but are you going to do that all night? Just a little bit? How about we all...

It’s been 30 years since Queen released new music for their final album Made in Heaven.These were tracks that they worked on with retired bassist John Deacon alongside the posthumous vocals of Freddie Mercury.In the three decades since, Sir Brian May and Roger Taylor have released solo content but only toured with Queen’s back catalogue.However, that could be about to change as in recent years they’ve been recording with Adam Lambert “in secret”.Now the band’s drummer has the latest and it’s all sounding very positive.Speaking with Uncut, Roger said: “I think we might. Brian and myself were talking the other day, and we both said that if we feel we have some good material, why not? We can still play. We can still sing. So I don’t see why not.”As for why they haven’t yet, the drummer tol...